Thursday, 31 January 2008
Making Sensorama
Posted on 11:52 by Unknown
I’m obsessed with Morton Heilig lately. He’s called “the father of virtual reality” with good reason.When TV sucked the life out of the cinema in the 1950s, the cinema fought back with gimmicks like Cinerama, 3-D and Smell-O-Vision. Heilig, who was working as a Hollywood cinematographer, wanted to take the illusion of cinematic immersion one step further.His Sensorama machine, patented in 1962,
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